"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC

Key points

• It’s not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade.
• Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to DDR5 in modern Intel and AMD CPUs means that a lot of people would need to pay money to replace their current DDR4 kits if they wanted to step up to a significantly newer, faster CPU and motherboard.
• AMD may have something on the horizon for people who are looking to stretch their current PC (and its DDR4 RAM kit) just a little further.
• Leaks spotted by Tom’s Hardware point to the existence of an “AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition,” a re-release of a 4-year-old out-of-circulation CPU that might nevertheless be an upgrade for people with older Ryzen CPUs in Socket AM4 motherboards.
• The “X3D” in the chip’s name signifies that it comes...